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Fwupd 1.7.6 Released With New Hardware Support, Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 02/25/2022 - 22:08
Fwupd 1.7.6 is out today as the newest version of this open-source software for facilitating system and peripheral firmware updating under Linux in conjunction with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)...

AMD "HSMP" System Management Driver On The Way To The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Fri, 02/25/2022 - 21:00
The AMD HSMP kernel driver is currently under review for possible inclusion into the Linux 5.18 cycle. HSMP in this context is the Host System Management Port...

GIMP 2.99.10 Released As "A Pretty Massive Step" Toward GIMP 3.0

Phoronix - Fri, 02/25/2022 - 19:17
We are now one step closer to the long overdue GIMP 3.0 release as the GTK3, much improved version of this open-source alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop...

Linux 5.18 To Bring RISC-V sv57 Support For 5-Level Page Tables

Phoronix - Fri, 02/25/2022 - 19:00
It was just with Linux 5.17 that its RISC-V code adds "sv48" support for being able to handle more system memory by offering 48-bit virtual address space support. Now for Linux 5.17 there is "sv57" support prepared for 57-bit virtual address space support with five level page table handling...

Fedora 37's Silverblue & Kinoite Look To Default To Read-Only /sysroot

Phoronix - Fri, 02/25/2022 - 18:05
The Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite immutable OS spins of Fedora Linux are looking at mounting /sysroot read-only by default for where the operating system assets are stored...

Intel Sends In More Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Fri, 02/25/2022 - 17:48
Intel on Wednesday sent in another batch of i915 kernel graphics driver updates to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of next month's Linux 5.18 merge window...

Linux RNG Improvements Aim For Better VM Security

Phoronix - Fri, 02/25/2022 - 17:25
In addition to performance improvements for Linux's RNG code, Jason Donenfeld has also been working on security improvements around the kernel's random number generator code in the context of virtual machines. New patches he has been working on aim to address the issue of potentially having the same stream of random numbers when forking/cloning a VM...

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